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Recently Artist David Datuna made a statement by eating Maurizio Cattelan's art installation, which was a banana taped to a wall that was worth well over a hundred thousand dollars. Call us haters of modern art, but we're pretty happy to see low effort trash that people get to call "art" get eaten like the goddamned banana that it is. Artist Karla Ortiz said this about complacency of modern art galleries. Oh, also people are pretty sure this was part of a money laundering scheme.

The world is full of entitled people who need to leave and take their attitudes with them. This is extra abundant with anyone who makes art for a living, because fans tend to think that since it's their "passion" that artists would just love to do extra work for strangers without realizing that it's their job. @Jonarton took this to the next level when people asked him for free art.

While it's pretty generally agreed the Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace has some pretty big problems, and doesn't communicate its story well, award winning cartoonist Faith Erin Hicks made a really interesting version of Anakin's story. While it might not completely redeem the "ruined childhoods" of people who didn't like the prequels, it does something to fix the movies. For another star wars thing, here's a guy who set the record straight on a common misreading of Luke Skywalker.

After Smol Animol Memes and twitter user IsskndarAriffin shared the prompt for people to draw a duck, people's artwork came flocking in like mad. For more cool art stuff, here's a bunch of tattoos that turned scars into art, or this Tumblr user that followed along with Bob Ross on MS Paint.

The concept for the chart makes sense, it's just an abstract visual metaphor that isn't articulated totally perfectly. That's fine and all, except people on the internet tend to take things very literally. The idea of having one feminine leg seems a bit absurd, so Tumblr took to doodling and had some fun with it. Tumblr is a madhouse of MS painting with Bob Ross and lessons about physics and car safety, so you never know exactly what to expect.

Confuzzle-up your mind-brain by looking at this photos of confusing stuff at weird angles. Skewed perspective can make impossible things like floating heads and robot-men the norm, so why not drop the floor out from under your brain and defy your eyes.

Alright, this is downright, straight up, all around impressive. And the final result was good enough that you could tell the trees were pretty happy. Tumblr users are a creative bunch, doing stuff like writing an alien invasion story where the aliens are fought off by wildlife or expounding on wacky historical facts. Seriously, following along with MS Paint is brilliant and highly commendable.

Try as they might, eyes aren't perfect and they can be manipulated with confusing images and forced perspective. Get the wrong angle and stuff can look like its floating, the wrong size, or even like it's a completely different thing. Eye-Defying photos of weird perspective can give your eyes a workout and make you have to think about what it is you're actually looking at.

Thomas Romain is a French artist who takes inspiration from his kids, adapting their own characters into incredibly elaborate and creative pieces of art. It's pretty cool where a kid's imagination can go, and with the technical skill of an artist applied makes it that much better.

Since music is a primarily auditory experience, many artists don't seem to be too skilled when it comes to developing their image. Low budgets, awkward photoshoots and the swift and crushing passage of time have left many artists of the past in a whirling eddy of unrelatable creepiness that in retrospect, is fun to gawk at. In a similar vein of weird stuff people made, here are strange how-to books.

Some of these are extremely well done and absolutely random, and that's totally okay. While others, others generally make us fear for humanity. 

Sometimes your eyes deserve a workout. Your brain is constantly trying to process images all day, and it does a really good job of that most of the time. That said, there are fun images out there that will make your brain see the wrong thing, or two things at once. Weird perspective can go a long way in creating real life optical illusions that are worthy of a double-take.

When these sexist morons went ahead and claimed that this beautiful sculpture of a woman ("The Forgotten Melody") stood as an epitome of Western Male Art; they were swiftly fact checked. Turns out the sculpture was in fact created and painted by, Luo Li Rong. Sucks to suck, Ivan. 

Got an unsightly surgery scar that you wanna jazz up? Bam! Fishbone! We've seen our fair share of really not great tattoos. Bad tattoos are a dime a dozen. But these are flippin' cool. Here are a bunch of clever ways people used tattoos to cover up and repurpose scars and birthmarks into cool looking artwork.

Buckle up for one wild ride. Long story short, it sounds like Anish Kapoor is one selfish and elitist jerk. The art world doesn't want him, and we're not surprised after reading this Tumblr thread about how he basically hoards pretty colors from the world for his own personal gain. Fortunately, there was someone named Stuart Semple who was ready to fight the good fight; and ultimately bring the cool and pretty colors back to the world. The way he goes about it is petty revenge at its finest.